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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] WIP: add GCoroutine support
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] WIP: add GCoroutine support |
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Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:54:21 +0000 |
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 05:32:14PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 January 2015 at 17:19, Marc-André Lureau
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Learn to use the GCoroutine library instead of qemu own coroutine
> > implementation.
> >
> > GCoroutine is hosted on github:
> > https://github.com/elmarco/gcoroutine
> >
> > This allows to share the same coroutine implementation between various
> > projects (gtk-vnc and spice-gtk). It is related to the effort to push
> > coroutine support in GLib. See also:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719362
> >
> > Notes:
> > - there are no GCoroutine releases, the API isn't frozen
> > - this patch hasn't been thoroughly tested
> > - GCoroutine doesn't implement pools yet
> > - GCoroutine is missing sigaltstack based coroutines
> > - spice-gtk and gtk-vnc patches are being worked on
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> It's bad enough having four coroutine backends without adding
> yet another one :-( I'm not sure we should take this patch
> unless/until GCoroutine is fully implemented and supported in a
> common enough version of glib that we could delete at least
> one of our other backends in favour of this...
It's an RFC. I see this more of a way to collaborate on GCoroutine than
something that needs to be merged into qemu.git today.
Stefan
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